Hi guys, I'm currently building a drawing library for Love which makes it easy to draw geometric shapes likes arcs, ellipses, isosceles triangles, ovoids, etc... I'm almost done all my basic functions, but I'm wondering how I should structure my code. One thing I realize is that I can't possibly cov...

I'm not too sure what's the problem with your example.

I don't think there is, but I don't see why this would be necessary. Just declare the variable at the top of the file. I think this is the clearest way no. Declare variables in the scope that they will operate.

I tested this profusely. The if/then structure seems like the only one which works in this case and it's easy to read. My default value can be false, or some string.

If only Lua supported ternary conditionals. If only...

Lua would be super awesome if it could just fix a few things to streamline the syntax. I find it unacceptable that it does not have the following features: 1) default params for functions, 2) += operators, 3) ternary conditionals. I also prefer braces to the if/then/else/end syntax which reminds me ...

Thanks for all your quick responses guys. 1) I'm a little surprised that local is not needed in my first example since all the code Iv'e looked at for Love always seems to use it. I'm thinking of Hump as an example. 2) I should have been more specific. My parameter can be boolean value or a string a...

Hi guys, I read all the docs I could find on the Lua language, but the use of local keyword when creating default values for function parameters is still unclear to my mind. I see this a lot. I imagine the local keyword should be used in this instance. function my_func(someArg) local someArg = somea...

It seems like a really powerful language. You've fixed a lot of things I don't like about Lua, like repeating local, not being able to do +=, and the massively annoying fact that function parameters cannot have default values. Good job. My only criticism is that the language is a tad too flexible fo...

The maximum number of polygon vertices can be set in Box2D with the b2_maxPolygonVertices parameter. The default is indeed 8, but it would be nice if Love let us change that like it's possible with Box2D. I used the shape creator and it's really nice, the only thing that I found missing was the abil...

Hi guys,

I'm new on these boards, and enjoying learning Love and Lua. I'm currently working on an editor for Box2D and was wondering why there was a limit of 8 vertices on polygon shapes?

Thanks,